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Assume that Daniel is rational. If you want to reach him how about focusing on actions that he might agree to? How about: o increasing funding for monitoring t
by skmurphy 17y ago
Assume that Daniel is rational. If you want to reach him how about focusing on actions that he might agree to? How about:
o increasing funding for monitoring temperatures on a worldwide basis so that we can get a better handle on where we are.
o increasing funding for monitoring CO2 levels (along with other greenhouse gases) to see if can get more data about the here and now.
Certainly we will need better monitoring of both temperature and CO2 gases to understand where we are and to monitor the effectiveness of any interventions that are agreed to.
It's often more effective to work from areas where you may agree and to tell if you are having a values conflict or a disagreement over facts and competing hypotheses for explaining them.
Another way to look at this would be to ask "what would prove to you the reality of both global warming and C02 as it's cause?" Or to answer "what would prove to me that global warming is not taking place is ________" and "what would prove to me that reducing C02 would not have an impact is _______ "
- hga 17y agoOne problem here is illustrated by this (in)famous Stalin quote: "I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how." (Note that inside the party there were real votes.) E.g. we started whole earth satellite monitoring in 1979 as I recall ... but guess what NASA calibrated the raw data against. If you say "real time weather balloons" (if not the first, a later satellite took readings at various altitudes), guess again....